Accordionist/vocalist Lauren Brody and Violinist/vocalist/composer Alicia Svigals will perform a program of Yiddish songs old and new and of euphoric klezmer fiddle music, in their first concert reunion since the days of their 1990’s all-women band Mikveh.
The first program takes place at the YIVO Institute or Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York City on August 3, 2016 at 7:PM. Admission is $15 and YIVO members and alumni: $10.
The second program is presented by Tompkins Corners Cultural Center . It takes place at the Tompkins Corner Cultural Center, 729 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley, NY. on August 20, 2016 7:30 PM Admission is $15
Excerpts from the event website: “Alicia Svigals is the worlds leading klezmer fiddler, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics – whom she co-led for seventeen years – and a long-time resident of Putnam Valley. She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, PBS Great Performances, NPRs Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds, and on the soundtrack for The L-Word.
She has played with and composed for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and many others.
Lauren Brody is an accordionist, singer, researcher and piano tuner/technician from New York. She is a pioneer of the klezmer revival in the United States and a founding member of the groundbreaking band “Kapelye”, formed in 1979. She has toured extensively, recorded and appeared on film with Kapelye, with the all-female ensemble “Mikveh” and she plays regularly with many other musicians in the klezmer world.
Lauren has had a similarly pivotal role in the Balkan music scene in the United States, both as a teacher and as a performer. She has taught regularly at both the EEFC’s Balkan Music and Dance Workshops and at Klezkamp. As a vocalist and keyboard player, she toured and recorded with the “Yuri Yunakov Ensemble” and the “Ivan Milev Balkan Folk Band”.
Lauren is a Fulbright scholar, and her research endeavors are realized in two groundbreaking reissues of 78 rpm recordings of Bulgarian Folk Music: “Song of the Crooked Dance” (1998, Yazoo Records) and “Outsinging the Nightingale” (2010, JSP Records). She is currently involved in her own solo project “Lauren Brody’s Accordion Bytes.
For information:
l.brody@verizon.net
info@songofthecrookeddance.com
